@Yuchenj_UW Congrats on the launch!! We are working on structured information extraction from scientific papers to create open tools for meta-science research.
I get frustrated with the lack of ecological planning in the abundance agenda stuff. If society is going to build a lot of houses (we should!) we should plan for them to last a long time, and if we plan for them to last a long time, we need to think about climate migration.
@drvolts How does the DOE incentivize clean tech customers (typically large enterprises) to take on the risk of novel tech and pay the associated green premium?
Putting non-tech millennials in tech and giving them titles like “Product Owner”, “Project Manager”, and “Scrum Master” is just a modern Stanford Prison Experiment
I can’t help but think about how hurtful and (tone deaf?) it is to label gen z as the generation that “doesn’t want to work” when many of us graduated college in the pandemic, have yet to experience job security, yet are very eager for full time, salaried roles
My weirdest piece of writing advice is: write your first draft in google docs, and then edit *on your phone*.
It sounds deranged, but I’d say >50% of my useful editing happens on my phone:
-it’s hard to add things, but relatively easy to delete (good!)
-the mobile layout is so horizontally constricted that you’re forced to read long sentences in broken up chunks, which helps you refactor into active voice; more direct sentence construction.
-when editing in random 2 minute segments (in line; in the bathroom; wherever) you don’t have time to “fall in love with your own writing”, so to speak; you’re more objective and savage
-this one’s abstract, but composing on the phone medium is more conducive to brevity because that’s what we’re used to writing there (texts, tweets, not docs)
one weird thing is that people who are addicted to working get the most say about the future of products and culture. but people who work a lot are really strange people several deviations off of the center
Just saying…
And this is why we insist that we keep each other safe.
Whether from violent, weapon-wielding mobs or from COVID.
Because our institutions won’t.
Burnout isn’t just from overwork, it can be from lack of agency to affect outcomes. I think people often blame the former when the problem is the latter